The following three videos all deal with the parking issues around town, or more specifically, the DuPont City Council addressing parking issues. Aside from being profoundly mundane, it strikes me that there is a tremendous gulf between planning and implementation. The plan I am referring to isn’t the plan to address the tight parking in Palisade Village. No, the plan I am referring to is the much ballyhooed “award winning” plan that laid out our community in the first place.
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Not all of the council comments at the July 14th meeting were obsessing over the recent fireworks dilemma. One set of comments stood out from the rest; just for their sheer obsequiousness in nature.
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Last Tuesday’s DuPont City Council meeting had several combustible topics but the use of fireworks remained fresh on council’s mind. The city was burdened by two significant blazes that they claim was attributable to the use of fireworks.
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As you may have heard, there were several fires over the Fourth of July holiday weekend in DuPont. The area near the Home Course was hit twice, within 36 hours. The first fire was along the embankment near the railroad tracks; the second fire was behind Track I park. Both fires involved fireworks.
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We have visitors in town this week. Hundreds of visitors. The Pacific Northwest is well represented, as is Western Canada and California. There are even visitors from as far away as Ontario, South Carolina, and Florida. They are not with the military but there are here on business.
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